WellArchitectedConsoleFullAccess

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Oct 29, 2026

October 29, 2026 at 11:03 PM UTC

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The same capabilities in a scoped form, resource policy writes, reads across all data, or full access to a whole service. Read from this policy document alone: trust policies, boundaries and SCPs in your account still decide what actually succeeds. How this is assessed

Medium
Can grant itself more permissions
Grants the actions of 2 documented escalation paths, but only on named resources or under a condition. Review that scope before trusting it.
- iam-001iam:CreatePolicyVersionscoped
  - iam:CreatePolicyVersion: on arn:aws:iam::*:policy/service-role/*
- iam-009iam:AttachRolePolicyscoped
  - iam:AttachRolePolicy: on arn:aws:iam::*:role/service-role/*
Use with caution: Check which roles, users or policies fall inside the scope shown above. Within it the escalation works as documented, so keep privileged principals out of it.
Medium
Full wellarchitected access on every resource
Uses wellarchitected:* with Resource "*" and no condition, so every action AWS adds to that service later is granted too.
wellarchitected:*
Use with caution: The grant grows every time the service does. For long-lived access, prefer a policy that lists the actions you actually need.

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118{
  "PolicyVersion": {
    "Document": {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": [
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "wellarchitected:*",
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "organizations:DescribeAccount",
            "organizations:DescribeOrganization",
            "organizations:ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization",
            "organizations:ListRoots",
            "organizations:ListAccounts",
            "organizations:ListOrganizationalUnitsForParent",
            "organizations:ListAccountsForParent",
            "organizations:ListDelegatedServicesForAccount",
            "organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "organizations:RegisterDelegatedAdministrator",
            "organizations:DeregisterDelegatedAdministrator",
            "organizations:EnableAWSServiceAccess",
            "organizations:DisableAWSServiceAccess"
          ],
          "Resource": "*",
          "Condition": {
            "StringEquals": {
              "organizations:ServicePrincipal": "agent.wellarchitected.amazonaws.com"
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "trustedadvisor:List*",
            "trustedadvisor:Get*"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
          "Resource": "arn:*:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/*/AWSServiceRoleForWellArchitected*",
          "Condition": {
            "StringEquals": {
              "iam:AWSServiceName": [
                "wellarchitected.amazonaws.com",
                "agent.wellarchitected.amazonaws.com",
                "metrics.wellarchitected.amazonaws.com",
                "scanning.agent.wellarchitected.amazonaws.com"
              ]
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "iam:DeleteServiceLinkedRole",
            "iam:GetServiceLinkedRoleDeletionStatus"
          ],
          "Resource": "arn:*:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/*/AWSServiceRoleForWellArchitected*"
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "iam:CreateRole",
            "iam:AttachRolePolicy"
          ],
          "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/service-role/*"
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "iam:CreatePolicy",
            "iam:CreatePolicyVersion",
            "iam:DeletePolicyVersion"
          ],
          "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:policy/service-role/*"
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "iam:ListRoles",
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "iam:PassRole",
          "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/*",
          "Condition": {
            "StringEquals": {
              "iam:PassedToService": [
                "wellarchitected.amazonaws.com",
                "agent.wellarchitected.amazonaws.com"
              ]
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "iam:GetRole",
          "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/scanning.agent.wellarchitected.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForWellArchitectedAgent_ResourceScanning"
        }
      ]
    },
    "VersionId": "v3",
    "IsDefaultVersion": true,
    "CreateDate": "2026-10-29T22:37:07+00:00"
  }
}

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v3updated

1 action added

Oct 29, 2026

aab2847

v2updated

23 actions added

Jul 9, 2026

2107ee0

8 permissions management, incl. iam:AttachRolePolicy: iam:AttachRolePolicy, iam:CreatePolicy, iam:CreatePolicyVersion, iam:CreateRole, iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole, iam:DeletePolicyVersion, iam:DeleteServiceLinkedRole, iam:PassRole

v1updated

scope changed, no action added or removed

Mar 12, 2026

16c818e

Update detected